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.I. 0. PETERSON.

TOY SHOOTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23. I919.

1 3 1 7, 4 5 6 Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

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ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN O. PETERSON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

TOY SHOOTER.

Application filed May 23, 1919.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that 1, JOHN O. PETERSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, city of New York, county of Kings, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Shooters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion.

My invention relates to improvements in toy shooters or guns, and the object of my invention is to make a simple, inexpensive and amusing device which is especially adapted for shooting marbles or the like, and is intended, unlike most guns, to shoot the marble or similar projectile so that it will roll along the ground or floor, instead of propelling it through the air. To this end my invention comprises a body portion having a hand grip at its upper end, and having its lower end formed into a horizontal barrel portion which can rest upon the ground, and from which the projectile is eX- pelled. My invention is intended to produce a toy shooter of this character in which the body can act as the magazine to carry a quantity of marbles or the like, and in which the body, barrel, and hand grip are arranged so that the barrel can be held firmly upon the ground and easily sighted so that the projectile when expelled will roll accurately toward the mark. .My invention is further intended to produce a simple trigger and spring mechanism for actuating the hammer which will throw out the projectiles one by one with sufficient force, all of which will be more clearly understood from the descrip* tion which follows.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken side elevation of the shooter embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a front view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a cross section on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a broken side elevation showing a modified form of trigger mechanism, and

Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of the trigger mechanism.

The device is provided with a simple boxlike elongated body portion 10 which is adapted to be held vertically, and in which is a vertically arranged magazine 11 adapt- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 30, 1919.

Serial No. 299,278.

ed to carry spherical or substantially spherical projectiles 12 which would generally be marbles. The magazine has an opening 13 at the top through which the marbles or projectiles can be dropped, and at the lower end the magazine delivers into a short horizontally arranged barrel 14 which is adapted to rest upon the ground, and which should aline with the hand grip 18 presently referred to. The barrel portion is preferably concave on its inner wall at top and bottom as shown at 15 in Fig. 2, so as to nicely guide, the projectile, and immediately below the magazine the barrel is slightly depressed as shown at 16 in Fig. 1, so that the projectile will normally rest in this depression.

While the body can be made of any suitable design and material, it can conveniently be a boX-like structure havingone side 17 removable. The hand grip 18 can conveniently be a pistol grip, and is arranged at the top of the body and on the back side in alinement with the barrel 14, so that the user can grasp the handle or grip, rest the barrel upon the ground, and direct it to the desired point when he is to use it.

The bottom of the magazine is normally closed by the swinging hammer 19, the front end of which is preferably inclined slightly as shown, and this swings through an open ing 20 in the back wall of the magazine. It is attached to the free end by the stiff flat spring 21 which is secured to the back wall of the magazine, or to any other convenient part of the body, and its tension normally impels the hammer forward. The hammer can be connected in many ways with a suitable trigger mechanism, and the detail of this connection and of the trigger mech anism can be departed from without aflecting the invention. As shown in Figs. 1 to 3, the spring 21 has on its back side and near its free end, a link 22 connected with a wire 23 or the like, which is suitably guided, and which connects with a trigger 2 1, this being pivoted as shown at 25 in the top of the body, and moving in the slot 26 in the back of the body.

When the shooter is used it will have its magazine provided with projectiles as shown in Fig. 1, and after the operator sights it, he pulls up on the trigger, which thus draws back the hammer 19 against the tension of the spring 21 and allows the lower marble or projectile to drop into the slight depression 16. He then lets go suddenly of the trigger, and the spring 21 throws forward the hammer 19 and expels the projectile from the body 20.

In Figs. 4 and 5 I have shown a slight modification of the trigger mechanism and its connection with the hammer, which does not affect the principle of the invention. As here shown, the link 22 connects with a flat metallic band 27 which can be of spring metal if desired, and this at its upper end is cut out to form a yoke 28 which rests over the boss 19 of the trigger 30, the latter having a pivot pin 31. When the trigger is pulled up to a certain angle, the yoke 28 slips ofl? the boss 29, and the hammer 19 is actuated as already described. Doubtless other forms of the trigger and spring mechanism can be used without departing from the invention, and it will-be noted that the important thing is to have the vertical body and magazine, the horizontal barrel adapted to rest upon the ground, and suitable hammer and trigger mechanism whereby the lower projectile will be rolled in its course from the barrel.

I claim 1. A toy shooter comprising a vertical body portion having at the bottom a horizontally arranged barrel adapted to rest upon the ground, means for inserting a projectile in the barrel, a hammer swinging into the barrel to expel a projectile therefrom, and trigger mechanism at the upper part of the body controlling the hammer at the lower end thereof.

2. A shooter of the kind described comprising a vertical body having a hand grip at the top, and a horizontal barrel at the bottom adapted to rest upon the ground, a hammer swinging in the barrel, and a trigger mechanism controlling the hammer.

3. A shooter of the kind described comprising a body portion having a vertical magazine therein, and a hand grip at the upper part thereof, a horizontally arranged barrel adapted to receive projectiles from the magazine, a spring pressed hammer swinging into the barrel below the magazine, and trigger mechanism adjacent to the hand grip controlling the action of the hammer.

4. A shooter of the kind described comprising a body portion having a vertically arranged magazine therein, a horizontal bar rel at the foot of the magazine, a hand grip at the top of the body, a spring pressed hammer swinging into the barrel below the magazine, and trigger mechanism controlling the hammer.

5. A shooter of the kind described comprising a body portion having a vertically arranged magazine therein, a horizontal barrel at the foot of the magazine adapted to rest upon the ground, a spring pressed hammer moving into the barrel and nor mally forming the bottom closure for the magazine, and a trigger mechanism controlling the hammer.

6. A shooter of the kind described comprising a body portion having a barrel at the foot adapted to rest upon the ground, a vertically arranged magazine delivering into the barrel, a hand grip at the top of the body, a spring pressed hammer movable into and out of the barrel and adapted to move beneath the magazine, and trigger mechanism controlling the hammer.

JOHN o. PETERSON.

Witnesses:

WILBUR K. HAVILAND, CHAS D. SULLIVAN.

Copies ,of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

